These are the spelling patterns that we are learning in Class 4 this week:

Year 3 Seals

Creating adverbs using the suffix -ly where the root word ends in ‘ic’ or ‘al’ e.g. basically, frantically, dramatically, magically, tragically, comically, actually, accidentally, occasionally, eventually.

Year 4 Surfers 

Words with ‘ough’ to make a long /o/, /oo/ or /or/ sound e.g. though, although, dough, through, breakthrough, thought, bought, brought, fought
ought.

Year 4 Waves

Words with the ‘oa’ phoneme e.g. loaded, soaked, foal, foaming, groan, boasting, coast, roasted, toasted, floating.

These are the spelling patterns that we are learning in Class 4 this week:

Year 3 Seals

Creating adverbs by adding the suffix -ly to root words ending in ‘le’ (replace the final ‘e’ with a ‘y’) e.g. gently, simply, humbly, legibly, horribly, terribly, possibly, incredibly, comfortably, probably.

Year 4 Surfers 

Words with a /shuhn/ sound spelt with ‘cian’ (if the root word ends in ‘c’ or ‘cs’) e.g. musician, politician, electrician, magician, mathematician, dietician, statistician,  technician, clinician, optician.

Year 4 Waves

Words with the ‘oi’ phoneme e.g. oil, boil, soil, foil, spoil, coin, join, loin, point, noise.

These are the spelling patterns that we are learning in Class 4 this week:

Year 3 Seals

Creating adverbs by adding the suffix –ly to root words ending in ‘y’ with more than one syllable (change the ‘y’ to ‘i’ then add ‘ly’ – happy to happily) e.g. happily, angrily, lazily, easily, busily, greedily, messily, wearily, cheekily,  clumsily.

Year 4 Surfers 

Words with a /shuhn/ sound spelt with ‘tion’ (if the root word ends in ‘te’ or ‘t’ or has no definite root word) e.g. invention, injection, action, question, mention, attraction,  translation, devotion, position, solution.

Year 4 Waves

Words with the ‘ow’ phoneme e.g. down, gown, frown, clown, town, howl, growl, owl, now, how.